Snowleg - Softcover

Shakespeare, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156030462 ISBN 13: 9780156030465

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2005

Synopsis

When sixteen-year-old Peter Hithersay discovers that his father is not the affable Englishman married to his mother but an East German political dissident with whom she had a brief affair in the 1960s, he travels, in search of his past, to Leipzig. There he falls in love with a beautiful young woman who is beginning to question the way her society is governed. But their romance ends quickly and badly when his scheme to smuggle her out of the country goes awry and he is forced to return to England.

When the two Germanies are reunited nineteen years later, Peter goes back to look for the woman he has never stopped loving. But his only clues are the nickname he gave her, Snowleg, and the archives of the state that drove them apart.

In Snowleg, Nicholas Shakespeare explores to devastating effect the unassailable dictates of love and politics.

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Review:

"Already my bet for this year's Booker Prize. A superbly achieved and moving novel."--Giles Fodden, "Guardian" "Snowleg is his finest book yet. Beautifully written, rich in character, it displays all the courage for which its hero so desperately wants to be recognized."--"Economist" "This novel is one of the finest attempts in English to convey something of two very strange places which no longer appear on the map of Europe... Shakespeare has told a very skillful story."--"Evening Standard" "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Book Description:

'A superbly achieved and moving novel' Giles Foden

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0156030462
• ISBN 13: 9780156030465
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 387